To be fair, Labour's counter-cyclical spending had sidestepped the European recession. (View Post)

No, even if we accept your premise that Brown overspent, the sheer scale of the global financial crisis rendered the question moot. (View Post)

Say what you like about Liz Truss, she did briefly reach the top. (View Post)

Not true. It might have been true in some alternative universe without the global financial crisis but in this one, Brown did not blow up the economy. (View Post)

If Seb Coe is the answer, you've been listening to William Hague. Coe is well into his bus pass years in any case. (Wasn't Coe's mum Indian, now you mention him?) (View Post)